Live Play Data

Will of the Abzan

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

333

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

16%

63%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 8% (3 / 49 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

333 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

333

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=47) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=216).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=20).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +18.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.2pp to +32.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

2.3%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

64.8%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Felothar the Steadfast 55 decks
2 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 16 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 4 decks
6 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 4 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 4 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
9 Ardyn, the Usurper 3 decks
10 Betor, Kin to All 3 decks

Card text

Will of the Abzan

Sorcery

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Any number of target opponents each sacrifice a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls and lose 3 life. • Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.